Can't believe I missed this thread! I've also adopted Mikel's timenav tag: http://delicious.com/TomC/timenav but I'm not a librarian so you'll probably get slightly different lists at http://del.icio.us/TomC/information_visualisation+time and http://del.icio.us/TomC/maps+time too. Be thankful for the visited link styles at del.icio.us!
My favourite / standout / canonical web-based temporal map is the NYTimes' Casualties of War: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/us/20061228_3000FACES_TAB2.html In general, I'd consider any interactive map with a slider for time to be a temporal animation, so long as it updates quickly enough. But obviously if you've implemented the logic for a slider then putting it on a timer and adding a play button is relatively simple - I'm seeing a lot more sliders with play buttons on these days. (The opposite is also true... a lot of animations and videos become interactive if you scrub the playhead back and forth). You have three of our projects already (cabspotting, hindsight, mysociety travel time), but I might humbly claim that maps and time is quite a bit of *what we do* at Stamen. So if you'll forgive the listing of commercial work, the other things I think are relevant are: - http://stamen.com/clients/indigital (noteworthy because it's realtime, sadly not public although there's a video here http://vimeo.com/1158094) - http://snapshot.trulia.com (the Post got some ideas here, I reckon!) - http://london2012.com/map (new work launched this month) - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26295161 (msnbc's hurricane tracker begins with an animation) - http://vimeo.com/1653627 (a video of the hurricane tracker as the forecasts roll in, so you can see how the predictions change) I suspect there's a whole thread we could do dedicated solely to weather maps! Sadly play buttons and a scrubbable timeline dropped off the feature list for the hurricane maps as the deadline closed in, but what I really wanted to get working was a direct manipulation interface that would allow you to move the hurricane position and adjust the timeline, as well as the more conventional opposite. (I was inspired by DimP http://www.aviz.fr/dimp/ - good demo at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib_g7F6WKAA) And then there's Oakland Crime, which isn't client work so I hope you'll forgive me for continuing... http://oakland.crimespotting.org Our work on animating the shapes in Oakland Crime (and Trulia Hindsight) was sparked by Mike Migurski's blog post musing on the shape a crime takes in a neighbourhood over time http://mike.teczno.com/notes/oakland-crime-maps/IV Jon Udell referenced those animations of arrests from Oakland Crimespotting earlier this week http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/02/11/time-space-and-data/ and asks "Where, for example, is the general-purpose visualizer for map data over time? In the spirit of Many Eyes, I'd like anyone to be able to upload a simple comma-separated dataset and create an animation like FlowingData's Growth of Target, 1962 - 2008." Zeitgeist indeed, Tom. 2009/2/14 Mikel Maron <[email protected]>: > A couple more oldies.. > > http://worldkit.org/population/ > http://worldkit.org/wmstimenav/ > > some old thoughts.. > > http://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maron/its-about-time-for-time > > I love temporal maps and keep some tabs on them at > http://delicious.com/tag/timenav+geo > > -Mikel > > ________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:09:04 AM > Subject: [Geowanking] Cool Temporal Animations > > Hi - > > I was doing a bit of work to try and catalog the best temporal animation > approaches for interactive maps. I'm sure there is lots of stuff I'm > missing and thought folks might have some suggestions or personal favorites: > > To get it started a few of my own: > > http://cabspotting.org/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/wild-britain/migratingbirds.shtml > (2:30 on th3e video) > http://hindsight.trulia.com/map/ > http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/ > http://www.obleek.com/iraq/ > http://homeless.cartifact.com/ > > Happy to aggregate and post back to the list with the final catalog. > > Many Thanks, > sean > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
